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FAREWELL TO GODS (Record no. 195201)

MARC details
000 -LEADER
fixed length control field 02081nam a22002297a 4500
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20250509180743.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
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037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION
Terms of availability Gifted
Note N.K Kannan Menon Foundation
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title English
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number F
Item number MOK
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Mokashi, B
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title FAREWELL TO GODS
Remainder of title : Outstanding Marathi Novel
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Delhi
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Hind Pocket Books
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1972
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Size of unit 128
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note This novel is about a family of four brothers. The four brothers hail from a small village in Maharashtra and who now live in various parts of the city forced to migration due to job opportunities. After many years the brothers, now two married and two unmarried, return to the village to transfer the family deity. As there will be no one to stay in the village except the old aunt who was taking care of the house and the Gods, the brothers have now decided that it was time they carried the Gods to their new homes in city. Naturally the responsibility falls on the eldest brother. As they return to the village each one is affected emotionally in a different manner. That forms the plot of this novel.<br/><br/>So simple a premise. But poured into it are the feelings of nostalgia for the childhood; the feelings of fond sentiments for the village and house; the inescapable sense of guilt of transferring the Gods (when a deity is taken away by a family/community that family/community no longer becomes the part of that particular village. Interestingly on the other hand a God who is left untended is also a shame to the family. It is better to take the God along than to leave him untended.) In a subtle way this novel also speaks a lot about human sentiments for the past and the practical present needs that force men to act in a particular way.<br/><br/>On the surface, it was a simple story. But as I was completing the story I too was feeling like the sad onlooking villagers that a dear family was moving away from me.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Marathi Novel
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Fiction
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Pranod Kale (tr.)
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type Reference
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
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Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Collection code Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Source of acquisition Cost, normal purchase price Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Price effective from Koha item type
    Dewey Decimal Classification     Reference Ernakulam Public Library Ernakulam Public Library Reference 2025-03-21 Gifted 150.00   F MOK E1101367 2025-05-09 2025-03-21 Reference